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Twin Girls Separated But Still Gravitate Towards One Another

"We did initially try and have them in two beds, but they didn't like that at all, so they're in the one bed together and just happy playing with one another."

Bhutanese twins Dawa and Nima nearly a week after the successful surgery to separate them at Melbourne's Royal Children's Hospital.(Source: AFP)

By AFP

It took six hours for doctors to separate conjoined Bhutanese twins Nima and Dawa last week, but nurses said Thursday the recovering girls are still not ready to go their own ways.

"We try and have them a little bit apart, but they manage to sort of bum shuffle back together and have their legs intertwined always," nurse Kellie Smith told reporters, six days after their operation.

"We did initially try and have them in two beds, but they didn't like that at all, so they're in the one bed together and just happy playing with one another, and it's actually beautiful to see," she said.

Chief Surgeon Joe Crameri of the Royal Children's Hospital in Melbourne said the 15-month-olds, who had been joined at the torso and shared a liver, were "making good progress" despite "a few bumps we're still smoothing out."